Leigh Anne Lester
Galveston: Drawings, Mobster Architecture and Brothels
By Kelly Klaasmeyer on December 3, 2012
I headed down to Galveston last Friday to see “The Drawing Room, Part 2,” yet another fine offering from curator Clint Willour at the Galveston Art Center and to check out the old Sam Maceo house. Galveston is always full of surprises, I stumbled across a brothel along the way. Organized crime boss Salvatore “Sam” [...]
Posted in Bless Their Hearts, Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged artadia, brothel, Clint Willour, Debra Barrera, free state of galveston, galveston, Galveston Art Center, hunting prize, Hurricane Ike, Jillian Conrad, katie maratta, Laura Lark, Leigh Anne Lester, Neva Mikulicz, organized crime, sam maceo | 3 Responses
2011 Fall Preview
By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged AIDS, ALBANY, Ann Stautberg, Anne Wallace, annette lawrence, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, ashley hunt, austin, Austin contemporary art, AutoBody (Featuring North of South, Ballroom Marfa, BEAUMONT, Beili Liu, Beto Gonzales, Bill Davenport, Calatrava, Charlotte Smith, CHRISTEENE, Christina Rees, Chuck Ramirez, Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque, climate change, Communograph: Mapping Through Creative Action, Connections: Haley-Henman, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, dallas, dallas contemporary, Dan Havel, David Schalliol, David Schalliol: Isolated Building Series, David Shelton Gallery, David Taylor, Dean Ruck, Devon Dikeou, EL PASO, el paso museum of art, Elisa d’Arrigo, Ellen Frances Tuchman, eric zimmerman, ethel shipton, Fall Preview, Fifth Ward Jam, fort worth, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Frances Bagley, fucked up shit, Gabriel de la Mora, Gaffes and Informations: Kevin Tedora and Jeff Zilm, George R. Brown Convention Center, Haley-Henman Gallery, Hana Hillerova, HCC Central Fine Arts Gallery, HJ Bott, Houston, Houston Art Fairs.Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston Art League, Houston's Third Ward, Hung Liu, jason villegas, Jayne Lawrence: New Drawings and Sculpture, Jayne Lawrences, Jeff Zilm, Jennifer Rubell, Jesse Lott, John Adelman, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Jonathan Whitfill, josef helfenstein, Joshua Bienko, Kevin Tedora, Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, laura mcphee, Laura McPhee: River of No Return, Lauren Levy, Leigh Anne Lester, libby black, Linda Ridgway, Linnea Glatt, Louise Bourgeois, LUBBOCK, lucia simek, MacDowell Artists Colony, Madeline O’Connor, Marco Maggi, Marfa, Marfa local punk band Solid Waste, margaret meehan, Mary McCleary, Mary mikel Stump, Mel Chin, Mel Chin: The Funk and Wag from A to Z, menil collection, Meredith Danluck, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Modern Ruin, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York musician John Carpenter, Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from The Victoria and Albert Museum Tyler Museum of Art, Obsessive Worlds, patty ortiz, Paul Booker, Perry House, Perry House: Movin On, peter doroshenko, Project Row Houses, queer states, rainey knudson, Ray Carrington, Rick Lowe, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary art, San Marcos, Sarah Fisch, Sawzall-equipped beavers, shawn smith, Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, SRO (Standing Room Only) Photography Gallery, Stephen Fox, Susie Rosmarin, texas contemporary art fair, Texas State, The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington, the guadalupe gallery, The Nave Museum, The Old Jail Art Center, The River of No Return, The Southwest School of Art, Tom Orr, Tony Cragg, Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, TYLER, Vernon Fisher, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, VICTORIA, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Vincent Falsetta, Walter De Maria, Walter De Maria: Trilogies, West of East), Women and THeir WOrk, Working the Line: Photographs by David Taylor | 1 Response
Escena San Antonio: Leigh Anne Lester rocks on, Cruz Ortiz as auteur, a visit from Houston curators
By Sarah Fisch on June 17, 2011
Here’s an interesting cross-section of San Antonio arts news. Now that I look at it, though, “escena” looks a little too much like “eczema” so I’m gonna call the next roundup something else, like maybe roundup. Me, I’ve been completely distracted from my usual howdoyoudo due to grant application fever, writing about how there’s art [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Anjali Gupta, Beto Gonzales, Blue Star, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, cactus bra SPACE, food writing, FotoFest, Guy Hundere, Hunting Art Prize, Jennifer Ward, jung hee mun, Leigh Anne Lester, Luminaria, Mantecatron, Reverend Seymour Perkins, Robert Gonzales, San Angel Folk Art, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary artists, San Antonio film, Southtown, Texas art networking, Texas Monthly, Vinod Hopson | 1 Response